Maim is a large scale, 50-minute orchestral triptych, a major piece in Czernowin's oeuvre. Following its Berlin premiere in March 2007 at the prestigious MaerzMusik Festival, the critic John Warnaby said: "Maim is probably her finest achievement to date... the product of a remarkable sonic imagination." An important follow-up to Czernowin's previous three releases on Mode.